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'Drinking too much' Rudy Giuliani hatched Trump’s ‘big lie’ on Election Night: new book

A new book appears to detail the genesis of former president Donald Trump's "big lie," in which he has falsely claimed that he won the November 2020 election.

The Washington Post on Tuesday morning published an excerpt from the book, "I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year," by Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker.

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'They're getting laughed out of court': Leaked emails show RNC's top lawyer thought Trump election lawsuits were 'a joke'

The Republican National Committee's top lawyer said that the elections lawsuits filed by Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis were doomed to get thrown out of court -- and he advised against the RNC getting involved.

The Washington Post reports that RNC chief counsel Justin Riemer wrote in an email to former GOP spokeswoman Liz Harrington that Trump allies' desperate bids to keep him in the White House were a "joke" that had no chance of success.

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'He is deranged': Author interviews Trump after Jan. 6 and concludes he's too dumb to plot insurrection

Author Michael Wolff interviewed Donald Trump following the events of Jan. 6 and concluded that the former president was too "deranged" to understand that he was inciting violence at the time.

Wolff spoke to Der Spiegel about his new book, "Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency," which chronicles Trump's role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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Republican Party chief blocks Trump's former lawyer on Twitter after shocking book exposes internal spat

A former lawyer to President Donald Trump is fighting with the Republican Party chair if Twitter is any indication.

Jenna Ellis posted on Twitter Sunday that Republican National Committee chair Ronna Romney McDaniel blocked her after she talked about an excerpt from Michael Wolff's new book on Trump and the final part of his administration. In November of last year, Ellis forwarded an email from the Republican Party's lawyer Justin Riemer questioning Trump's election claims.

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'Agitated' Trump fled election night war room after everyone forgot Wisconsin's time zone and flubbed results

Neither President Donald Trump nor his campaign team appeared to know what timezone Wisconsin was in, according to a new book about the 2020 election campaign.

Reporting at BusinessInsider revealed that the new Michael Wolff book, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency exposed the president's paranoia and the confusion among the Trump team. It was Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani who seemed to think that the stall was revealing a conspiracy was afoot.

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Giuliani called Sidney Powell 'crazy' in ugly confrontation over election fraud claims: report

According to a report from Business Insider, which obtained a copy of Micheal Wolff's upcoming book "Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency," former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani blurted that he thought attorney Sidney Powell was "crazy" after they battled over election fraud strategies.

The report notes that Donald Trump attorneys Giuliani and Powell (who promised to unleash the "Kraken") battled frequently over legal strategies to overturn the 2020 presidential elections, with third attorney, Jenna Ellis, acting as a go-between trying to keep the peace.

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Giuliani had a profanity-filled meltdown on the RNC's counsel for questioning Trump's election claims: report

According to a report from Business Insider, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani had a major meltdown after Republican National Committee chief counsel Justin Riemer sent out a note calling into question Donald Trump's claims of election fraud.

Reporting on excerpts taken from Michael Wolff's upcoming "Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency," the report states that Giuliani was given the note by fellow lawyer Jenna Ellis which stunned Trump insiders and set off a torrent of cursing.

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'No, this isn't happening': Trump aides looked on in horror as Giuliani's hair dye streamed down his face

According to another excerpt from Michael Wolff's upcoming book, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency, former president Donald Trump and his inner circle looked on in horror as ex-Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani held a press conference alleging election fraud as his hair dye streamed down his face.

The report from SheKnows via Yahoo, notes that Trump was watching the interview live as the former New York City mayor pressed his case -- while sweating profusely -- to get the 2020 election results overturned and then a thin line of dye slowly slid down from Giuliani's scalp and past his mouth.

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George Conway flattens Trump insiders for waiting until after the election to spill the beans on him

Appearing on CNN's "New Day" with hosts Brianna Keilar and John Berman, conservative attorney -- and ardent Donald Trump critic -- George Conway had few good things to say about members of Trump's inner circle who kept quiet about his private behavior during his administration.

Conway -- whose wife Kellyanne was one of Trump's closest advisers for four years -- was first asked about a reported confrontation between the ex-president and former Vice President Mike Pence and used that as a springboard to talk about other Trump administration insiders who stood by and bit their tongues until after the election was a foregone conclusion.

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Rudy Giuliani's legal fundraising page 'disappears' after raising under $10,000: report

Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani's legal fundraising webpage has reportedly "disappeared" after he failed to raise even $10,000 to help pay his legal bills.

The Daily Beast reports that the fundraising page for the one-time New York mayor went offline sometime between Wednesday night and early Thursday morning.

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Bill Barr 'lied to us over and over’ as he weaponized the DOJ to protect Trump: legal expert

Speaking on MSNBC this Thursday, legal analyst and former prosecutor Elie Honig said former Attorney General Bill Barr "broke the prosecutor's code" during his time in the Trump administration.

"Bill Barr came in and lied to us. He lied to us for two years -- everything from the Mueller report to fanning flames of the big lie of election fraud, and I call Bill Barr a liar in the book," Honig said, adding that Barr "lied to us over and over again."

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Arizona secretary of state asks AG for a criminal investigation into election interference by Trump

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has asked her state's attorney general to investigate election interference from President Donald Trump and his allies.

The Arizona Republic reported Wednesday that Hobbs believes the communications "involve clear efforts to induce supervisors to refuse to comply with their duties," which she thinks could have violated Arizona law.

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Rudy Giuliani unleashes paranoid NewsMax rant about BLM, Soros and Biden conspiracy to 'destroy America so we become socialists'

Speaking to the right-wing network Newsmax, Rudy Giuliani lashed out at Black Lives Matter falsely claiming that every rally they have called for the killing of police officers.

We "should take the bull off of Black Lives Matter and exactly say what they are -- they are cop killers," said Giuliani.

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